Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 11

Devanagari script

देव्युवाच । भगवन्विस्तराद्ब्रूहि लिंगैकादशकक्रमम् । स्थानसीमाप्रभेदेन माहात्म्योत्पत्तिकारणैः

Transliteration

devyuvāca | bhagavanvistarādbrūhi liṃgaikādaśakakramam | sthānasīmāprabhedena māhātmyotpattikāraṇaiḥ

Translation

دیوی نے کہا: اے بھگون! گیارہ لِنگوں کے سلسلے اور ترتیب کو تفصیل سے بیان کیجیے۔ ان کے مقامات اور حدود کے امتیاز کے ساتھ، اور وہ اسباب بھی جن سے ان کی عظمت (ماہاتمیہ) پیدا ہوتی ہے۔

Word by Word

• देवी: the Goddess
• देवी: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: देवी (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन — speaker

• उवाच: said
• उवाच: Kriya (मुख्यक्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच् (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (परोक्षभूत/Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन, परस्मैपद — ‘said’

• भगवन्: O Lord
• भगवन्: Sambodhana (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भगवत् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8th/सम्बोधन), एकवचन — vocative

• विस्तरात्: in detail
• विस्तरात्: Sambandha/Adverb (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: विस्तर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तसिल्-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय (विस्तरात्) — ‘in detail/at length’

• ब्रूहि: tell (me)
• ब्रूहि: Kriya (आज्ञा)
• Type: Verb
• Root: ब्रू (धातु)
• Form: लोट् (आज्ञार्थ/Imperative), मध्यमपुरुष (2nd person), एकवचन, परस्मैपद — ‘tell’

• लिङ्गैकादशकक्रमम्: the sequence/order of the eleven liṅgas
• लिङ्गैकादशकक्रमम्: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: लिङ्ग-एकादशक-क्रम (प्रातिपदिक; लिङ्ग + एकादशक + क्रम)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/द्वितीया), एकवचन — object of ‘ब्रूहि’

• स्थानसीमाप्रभेदेन: by distinctions of location and boundary
• स्थानसीमाप्रभेदेन: Karana (करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्थान-सीमा-प्रभेद (प्रातिपदिक; स्थान + सीमा + प्रभेद)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/तृतीया), एकवचन — ‘by/according to distinctions of place and boundary’

• माहात्म्योत्पत्तिकारणैः: by the causes of the origin of (their) greatness
• माहात्म्योत्पत्तिकारणैः: Karana (करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: माहात्म्य-उत्पत्ति-कारण (प्रातिपदिक; माहात्म्य + उत्पत्ति + कारण)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/तृतीया), बहुवचन — ‘by the causes of the arising of the greatness’

Speaker

Devī (Pārvatī)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Liṅga-ekādaśaka (Prabhāsa)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Īśvara (Śiva)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Devī, seated in attentive posture, asks Śiva to map the eleven-liṅga sequence: a scroll-like sacred map unfurls showing shrine nodes, boundary lines, and origin icons.

Characters & Entities

• Devī
• Bhagavān (Śiva)
• Liṅga
• Ekādaśa-liṅga

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

True pilgrimage knowledge includes geography, order of worship, and the sacred origins that make a site spiritually potent.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsa-kṣetra, specifically its network of eleven liṅgas and their localized māhātmya.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

A request is made for the correct sequence (krama) of the eleven liṅgas, implying a prescribed order of visitation/worship.